In the ocean, [bioluminescence] is the rule rather than the exception.

Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let's all go exploring.

The difference between a fairy tale and a sea tale? A fairy tale starts with "Once upon a time". A sea tale starts with " This ain't no $hit"!

It's a little-appreciated fact that most of the animals in our ocean make light.

The teeth on [the viperfish] are so long that if they closed inside the mouth of the fish, it would actually impale its own brain.

There's a lionfish cookbook put out by the Reef Environmental Educational Foundation, and it tells you how to catch them, how to clean them.

I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as self-governing people to hear everything relevant.

I am light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy

You cannot go into the womb to form the child; it is there and makes itself and comes forth whole-and there it is and you have made it and have felt it, but it has come itself.

Everyone in New York is fluid and thinking and inspiring each other.

There's no idea that can't be explained to a thoughtful 14-year-old. If the thoughtful 14-year-old doesn't get it, it is your fault, not the 14-year-old's.

The great ones don't come cheap.

Step by step, a path; stone by stone, a cathedral,' my great-grandfather used to say.

We have certain differences over the ways to pursue our goals, but our final aims coincide, in my opinion.

I was raised in the church by my grandmother who made sure we went to Sunday School, read the Bible and went to church every Sunday. Every night we read Bible stories before we went to bed.

People often ask me when there's going to be a Mrs. Zach Braff. It's a confusing question sometimes because many people don't realize that my mother is named Mrs. Zach Braff.